Why can't I use had know instead of knew in this text: ''This time last year was cycling in the rain along a country road in France with a friend of mine. We had decided to go on a cycling holiday in Normandy. Neither of us had been to France before, but we knew some French from our time at school and we had managed to brush up the basics.''
some French from our time at school: when you learnt French, prior to the trip but we knew some French : ever since learning it at school; at the time of the trip; and maybe still even today.
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some French from our time at school: when you learnt French, prior to the trip
but we knew some French : ever since learning it at school; at the time of the trip; and maybe still even today.